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Can't say I was even aware of it, much less used it. I have a perfectly serviceable FOSS application to be my desktop Feed Reader (Liferea), but to be honest I
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
Can't say I was even aware of it, much less used it.
I have a perfectly serviceable FOSS application to be my desktop Feed Reader (Liferea), but to be honest I never really use that, either. Wading through my news feed is now an activity that I do almost exclusively through Feedly on my phone or tablet, usually either while I'm having my morning coffee or as I'm winding down for bed.
I suppose if Mozilla had done a better job of advertising it I might've given it a second look. FWIW, Firefox's "Reader Mode" is fantastic, and if they had somehow combined that with the RSS reader, particularly on Firefox Mobile for Android where I do the majority of my reading, I probably would've been all-in. I don't believe Feedly is open source, so having one that is would be preferable in case Feedly ever decides to go the way of Google Reader and/or Pulse (which just went to garbage after LinkedIn bought it).
- detaro 8y agoYeah, pretty much an instance of a feature neglected for ages, so it's not surprising it isn't relevant now.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoA very long time ago, iirc, Firefox installed with the bookmarks toolbar default on and a live bookmark example with some help text and populated with BBC news (Perhaps different in non-GB locales). From that start it's been successively made more discrete (i.e. buried) with subsequent releases. They defaulted the bookmarks bar to off and at some point removed the pre-created example.